Bitcoin Forum

Hi

Just got my packages from friedcat.
It consist of 13 boxes.
Review and detailed guide on the way.

assembly photo
http://i60.tinypic.com/243fcqu.jpg

got from
https://github.com/blockerupter/AM_Tube/blob/master/assembly.png


I will try to make working miner using this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3U4ZHTmeKk
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0My2bNWlAU

Have look at photos before assembly.

http://i58.tinypic.com/dfzi4i.jpg

http://i61.tinypic.com/2v2e634.jpg

http://i59.tinypic.com/zv25q0.jpg

http://i61.tinypic.com/25gs02h.jpg

u think number 13 will be lucky for you? 

amounts of parts is massive. from delivery to mining how long? 2 days? plus if you have big fingers you screwed :)

good luck buddy.

i have paid at friday night, got package at tuesday at my airport (EU)
customs like usually were annoying but it was cleared due to great help of friedcat team!

Just got them from airport :)
Have electronic screwdriver so it will be fast.

I think/hope about 20min per miner :)

Tube is almost ready :)

without pcb

http://i61.tinypic.com/j9n0uo.jpg

edit,
i messed up :)

Would appreciate additional pictures as you assemble them, thanks for doing this.

Handles are backwards  ;D  Looks very nice, I'm interested to see how these do.  I've got mine on order with Canary right now.

Does the thermal paste come in a tube on the side?

No problem it is pleasure to create pictures :)

thermal paste is replaced with thermal pads easy to apply.

some pictures after dinner break

http://i62.tinypic.com/23uafb8.jpg

http://i58.tinypic.com/2hnc6mh.jpg

http://i62.tinypic.com/nlwshd.jpg

Do not forget to insert the ivory color washer (4 per device) between
the handle and the fan when screwing the fan onto the cooling kit.
It serves the protection of the PCB when screwing.

thanks for this.
i will change it.

unit is not hashing unfortunatelly yet.
maybe i messed up with connection cables.

i will try to fix it in 2 hours from now.

Once it will work, it would be very much appreciated if you could mesure the sound level of it.

Thx !

what's the dip switch used for?

For running multiple miners off one ethernet controller. See section 5 of Dogie's guide:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=723445

Self addressing would be more "pro" ;)

Over engineering if you ask me for something you set up once and never touch again till the electricity bill is too high.

got 6 miners assembled but i cant get them working

how they should be wired? i mean white transfer cable, and long one to controller

board 1

1a 1b

board 2

2a 2b

board 3

3a 3b

board 4

4a 4b

where a is socket nearest to fan

1a->2b 2a->3b 3a->4b 4a->controller?

i am testing it and it takes long time...
and how switches should be set if there is only 4 boards

and 8

nuber 1 is this one with controller ?

thanks

ps. sorry but this miner is not so easy to setup without detailed guide :)

Did you check out Dogie's guide for the HashRatio Tsunami that is also based on AM's open source x24 reference design?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=723445

^^ this and you also need to flash firmware to boards once everything is wired correctly

yes i have read it

but there is no answer to my questions

how to connect boards by white cable ?
wchich number of miner is one with controller ?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=750363.msg8475122#msg8475122

thanks

The last one's cable goes into controller.
Or another way, I think, the controller can accept 3 connections.  But I think each connection is independent.  So dip switches are for 1 chain

can you tell me how to connect white cables to boards ?
1-4 ab
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=750363.msg8475122#msg8475122

thanks

try this:
4a to 3b. 3a to 2b. 2a to 1b. 1a to controller.
make sure what you believe is 4, has dip switches set for 4.  3 has switches for 3 etc...

This is very interesting! Good to see that the tubes get shipped and already are in the hands of some miners. I hope you don't connect the wrong wires and fry the cat miner!
Oh friedcat, could you give us a heads up on the self-mining please?

too late for me :)
will try tommorow morning.
it turned to be one faulty board (used as second in chain) confusing me.

or maybe something else?

assembly and running is best fun for miners :)

thats why i spent my fiat into thoose miners, i am glad exchange rate was low :>

bought gardens using btc few weeks ago at rate 624, heh

http://www.iasicminer.com/index.php/action-viewnews-itemid-51
AM Tube setup instructions posted today. Not in english, but lots of photos.

thank you for this link
i wil post when i will have my units hashing
now i have to hold on with this

Don't know how many you have left but could you time yourself as you put one together as quickly as possible and report how long it takes here? Thanks

Iit took 17 minutes to put one together with everything laid out, once I know how to do it. Since then I have spent an additional hour & 30 minutes each trying to get them to work correctly.  The time spent getting them to run is on going as I don't have 1 running yet.

Told a few different things to check & go over by fc, which I will be doing once I get into office today. Will update if I can get them running

it takes about 15 minutes to assemble this.
it looks difficult but it is easy after first one.

unfortunatelly i cant report any unit working yet.
i have issues not related to miner itself.

Any solution to this yet? 0/10 is pretty poor yeild. Either you are doing something completely wrong or AM is sending incorrect parts.

Solution will be soon.
I am not noob, got hundreds of diffrent miners connected, used and sold.
I am sure that units will be hashing soon.

Patience, please.

thanks.

Which part of "i have issues not related to miner itself." did you not capture?  :o

nice LIDL bag :D

Very nice where can we order and can we tell as a price

So has anyone had these setup and hashing yet? I was thinking of buying one just because they looked kind of cool and that you build them.  I have not seen anyone say that they work...just that they take 15 minutes to build ???

I should know Wednesday how well they work. Not too crazy about the controller.

I assume you bought in Canary's group buy?  Wonder if I order one right now if he can have it here by Wednesday also?

Yeah I did. If you get him the shipping labels ASAP he might ship them out tomorrow and you could overnight them.

How loud are these compared to, say, an Antminer S1?

Do you know if they work with p2pool?

Thanks.

No on P2Pool.  Not sure if anyone's had success with any other pool but Ghash?

You can read up Dogie's review detailing the fan noise.  Apparently loud-ish, but higher pitched or something along those lines.

Got my units hashing.
Shipment with controllers arrived today.
I will post more tommorow.

I haven't jumped on this yet because I can't see myself buying a miner that will only work on ghash...I think it's rather ironic that for all the 'stop using ghash' threads on here this is the only pool this beast will work with.
Didn't they test it with any other pools before unleashing it?
weird...JMO

ig

Friedcat posted a guide for using bfgminer.  Mine is working on Eligius right now.

Ref:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=735728.msg8549984#msg8549984

So to not use ghash.io you have to buy another piece of hardware?

if you don't already have something else to run it on.

You would think they would just fix their crappy firmware!!

Looks like the S3 is a better deal as its price is dropping. Buy 2. Lower power consumption, higher hash (2 units). Dosnt need any
controller that further needs a proxy to fix it's flawed communications.

Plus I don't like that the boards are serial daisy chained. bad board takes out others behind it.

Not to mention crappy controller or issue of 'pool" fixing solution go'es south and you take out up to 4 units.

each S3 is stand alone direct to a pool.

AM should stick to chips and let others do the miner engineering. They proved that with the lemon cube.

But... you have to wait till end of sept for ants :)
and they are more expensive

here is photo of part of my farm :)

http://i59.tinypic.com/vpwzew.jpg

yeah this gets about a .3btc head start in coin over 1 pair of s-3's and it is a little cheaper 1.04 btc and say  .06 to ship a total of 1.10 btc vs 1.16 btc  that means this has a .36 btc edge over the s-3.  If you plan to mine this for 3 or 4 weeks and then sell it on ebay it is absolutely better then an s-3.  if you just want to mine for 6 months the s-3 may be better.

Hope you don't have a feline  ;D

Im sure it would love to play with all them wires !

I didn't check availability on S3's, saw they were being sold in forums for $349 (probably late delivery as you said) or .6? used.

Hope those things hold up better than my cube did.

Looks like they are all daisy chained to the controller into one port?

Can you break the chain into 2 or three chains? That would protect from a bad board knocking
you totally out.

Just a thought.

as an old network dude, I hate bus topology (especially daisy chain). Star is your friend.

october delivery, no thanks :)
at october my miners would be replaced with newer ones
like i usually do :)
but i allways put aside one miner as collectible, some of miners are at shelf now :)

it is not like this.
i had one tube offline at chain (unplugged due to power loss) and rest is working
one cutoff dont slice chain, just signals pass the dead tube :)

dont forget to reset/power on/off controller after adding/powering on tubes

One of the other people in the GB posted that his would not start until bad board's were removed
thus my assumption.

It will likely depend on how it fails. Some failures will keep the chain up, but some really wonky boards can probably bring everything down. My guess is that (total failure of the chain) would more likely be caused by a malfunctioning board that never works (thus, is identified when it is first tried), and not a marginal board that just flakes out after use.

thank you for info.

new pictures :)

http://i62.tinypic.com/2s7xgnq.jpg
http://i61.tinypic.com/35jgepl.jpg
http://i61.tinypic.com/qpkjzk.jpg
http://i58.tinypic.com/2rcraxf.jpg

and new location :)

http://i59.tinypic.com/mmx8gk.jpg

More accurate would be to point every box as separate worker.
Please be aware that ghash is very unstable and you can have more profit using other pool. just push miners to let say btcguild or eligius and see yourself.
Ghash is so unstable, spikes , hash is lover than reported in GUI.

Just thought.

I mine at polmine :), love PPS 1% and merged mining and many fancy stuff like below
 https://polmine.pl/userbar/d0411e7bcf3007ca11c241a24f53a038  (https://polmine.pl)

but didnt have time to setup proxy for those tubes so i mine at ghash with them

Looks great.

Block Erupter cube?  I still have three cubes throwing 100Ghs into the network making $1 a day....lol

If anyone wants a video tutorial of almost all the steps to build an ASICMiner Tube I recorded my process. Hope it helps :D It talks about all the little quirks and stuff and things to watch out for so you don't have to learn the hard way.

http://youtu.be/zEL5EKWwBx0

The Tubes have also just been discounted for round 2 sales. The price is now 7.9 BTC for a set of 10 Tubes (minimum direct order quantity), so that's 0.79 BTC per Tube. That works out to 380.72 USD at 482 USD/BTC (bitstamp rate at time of writing).

No way I would buy another one of these...my first one doesn't even work yet.  If anyone wants to buy my tube fully assembled for .79 let me know... mine shipped with a dead ethernet controller.

.79 btc is very tempting pm sent

I will ship it out for you tomorrow if you want it!

okay I will pm.


 and pm has been sent

Alright done deal this is sold now...hope she has all good blades for you.

well we will deal with blade quality once I get them (fingers crossed).  
I most likely will test them one by one. I am hoping to build a 1.6th unit. .79 is hard to turn down.

i got
2.5 unit
4.15 unit
0.84 unit

they are hashing stable.

noticed strange thing, sometimes randomly one chip or more goes off.
it clears after restart

maybe periodic software controller reset  is solution for this?

Just hope it dosnt degrade like my cube did, same company, all chips would x, restart then ok for 3 to 10 days.
after 90 days it kept doing it more often then finally quit. Never overlocked, (wouldn't over clock anyway, straight to x).

Why are you paying 0.79 BTC for a malfunctioning Tube when you can get a new one for the same price? Canary will likely lower his prices any time now. Just keep an eye on the group buy thread.

The tube probably works...just the ethernet controller does not. I hope that it has 4 good boards, but I have no way to test it with out the controller.

My Controller is bad (maybe only this one).

When it is connected to mining devices and they were hashing you will be unable to change settings.
To perform save you have to power down controller, take off hashing cable, turn on and then save settings.
After that turn off controller and connect hashing cable overthise not all boards will be visible.

I do not reccomend hashing at ghash.io. They had 1 hour downtime yesterday and today 2 hours (uk1.ghash.io)

Unfortunatelly you cant set backup pool at controller so you will loose money as i did. (7.5TH x 3 hours).
Miners while not hashing are eating electricity (around 235W per tube) so you loose even more due to web interface.

I have changed pool to slush (mining.bitcoin.cz) but it was not easy. :)

Hi Everyone-

I started a thread where we can consolidate information from the various ASICMiner Tube -related threads. the thread is here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=768500

I added what info I could in the time I had to spare. All contributions are welcome. I will monitor that thread and add info to the OP as it is posted.